by Bob Allen | Dec 29, 2005 | News
British Baptist leaders asked churches to pray during the Christmas season for a kidnapped British hostage and three fellow captives being held in Iraq. Norman Kember, 74, a longtime member of Harrow Baptist Church in London, was with two Canadians and an American...
by Bob Allen | Dec 28, 2005 | News
Current and former Wal-Mart workers in California received an early Christmas present last Thursday when an Alameda County jury ordered the retailer to pay $172 million for denying lunch breaks as required by state law. About 116,000 past and present workers were...
by Bob Allen | Dec 23, 2005 | News
Wal-Mart supporters on Tuesday formed a steering committee of Working Families for Wal-Mart to talk about positive contributions of the retailer and counter criticism from Web sites like WakeUpWalMart.com and a popular documentary, “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of...
by Bob Allen | Dec 22, 2005 | News
Shoppers expressed mixed feelings about Wal-Mart, rating it a good place to shop but a poor place to work, in a new survey. A poll released last Thursday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found 81 percent of Americans surveyed said Wal-Mart is...
by Bob Allen | Dec 20, 2005 | News
The National Council of Churches on Monday praised the U.S. Senate for Friday’s vote declining to end a filibuster blocking renewal of the U.S.A. Patriot Act. President Bush blasted senators in a Monday press conference for “playing politics” with...
by Bob Allen | Dec 20, 2005 | News
A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that public schools cannot teach intelligent design as an alternative to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in science classes. The ruling, which drew comparisons to the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, is the first...
